I help scholars, military professionals, and policymakers move beyond the events of history to understand the enduring principles of resilience, resistance, and irregular warfare that shape strategic competition today.

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Philippine Resistance Against Japan in World War II. Based on more than six years of archival research in the United States, this book examines one of the largest and most effective resistance movements of the Second World War while exploring enduring lessons for resistance, irregular warfare, and strategic competition.

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Global Resilience and Resistance Initiative (GRRI) develops a data-centric framework for explaining and forecasting state stability and intrastate conflict. Integrating longitudinal data across approximately 178 countries, GRRI measures both institutional resilience and societal resistance energy to identify drivers of instability, emerging conflict hotspots, and likely conflict trajectories.

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